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Officers of the Imo State police command have killed three persons suspected to be members of the proscribed IPOB/ESN group. This was confirmed by the state police PPRO, Michael Abattam. Abattam said scores of the gunmen attempted to attack Izombe ...

  Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests. The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But ...

  President Buhari has returned to Abuja after a two-week trip to the United Kingdom.   Buhari, who had visited the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, in London on Thursday, touched down at the Presidential Wing ...

A toddler in Florida fatally shot a woman during a video call after finding an unsecured handgun, police said Thursday. Someone on the work-related Zoom conference called 911 and reported that they had seen a toddler and heard a noise ...

Doyin Okupe, an erstwhile aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday claimed that former Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, is considering him for the presidency in 2023. Okupe disclosed this while appearing on Arise News TV. The former ...

  A Nigerian pastor, Felix Onuoha has welcomed a set of twins with his wife after 13 years of waiting.   Facebook user, Okoro Promise, celebrate with his pastor writing; “JOIN ME AND CELEBRATE OOOOOOO. MY PASTOR MY HEART IS ...

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has accused doctors in Nigeria of playing God. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) commenced an indefinite nationwide strike on August 2. The industrial action, to demand better welfare, serves as a ...

Prince Andrew could be ordered to pay £14million damages if he loses his US sex abuse case. Last night American lawyers also warned that due to “huge legal hur­­dles” facing accuser Virginia Giuffre, a hearing may be five years away. ...

  Barack Obama celebrated his 60th birthday last weekend with a glitzy party teeming with A-listers. The huge bash saw the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and George Clooney gather together to honour the former US president. Missing out on the ...

The Federal Government yesterday said 40 per cent of smuggled vehicles that find their way into the country are smuggled. This is aside the fact that 45 per cent of the vehicles that enter the country are smuggled annually. To ...

After being suspended from school for alleged indiscipline and her parents’ assault on teachers, a JSS1 student of Mary Immaculate Secondary School , Ado Ekiti, Gift Agenoisa, has sued the Ekiti State Government, seeking N15 million damages for breach of ...

The Defence Headquarters has said the fighting force of the Boko Haram Islamic sect has been grossly depleted by the mounting offensive launched by troops. It noted that following the increasing land and air bombardment of the terrorists’ enclaves, no ...

The Lagos State High Court, General Civil Division, has barred Chevron Nigeria’s Chief Medical Director (CMD), Rotimi Babalola, from evicting his wife, Adediwura Babalola, from their home. In the Certified True Copy of the ruling seen by Daily Post, Justice ...

Hi-Impact TV, Nigeria’s first full high-definition television studio, has been consumed by fire in Ogun State. The television studio, located in the premises of Hi-Impact Planet Amusements Park & Resort at KM 12 Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ibafo in Obafemi Owode Local ...

The management of Fresh FM has explained its station manager in Ekiti State, David Ajiboye, died of COVID-19 complications. Late Ajiboye died on Sunday in a hospital in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. A statement signed by Samson Akindele, on ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked Nigeria’s COVID-19 response as the fourth-best in the world. WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, spoke at an event on the arrival of the first consignment of 177,600 doses of the Johnson and ...

Nigerian youths can find solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing the country and the African continent, says the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ismaeel Ahmed, the National Youth Representative in the APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), ...

A 26-year-old woman has been arrested in South Africa for the alleged involvement in the murder of her husband in October last year. “The suspect and her female companion allegedly conspired to murder her husband in an incident, in which ...

  Murang’a County, Kenya Executive Officer for Health Joseph Mbai has raised an alarm over increased teen pregnancies in the area. Mbai has revealed that, in the month of June, two minors aged 10 and 12 were among girls who ...

Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has appealed to unemployed youths in the country to be patient with the government of the President Muhammadu Buhari. Commenting on the rising unemployment index of young Nigerians in the last six ...

They are both in London. The President is said to have visited the APC national leader, and a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu at home. In photos shared, Tinubu is seen using a walking stick to aid ...

  The Kebbi Epidemic Rapid Response Team on Thursday gave the information. It said 146 people have died following cholera outbreak in the state this year alone. The leader of the team and Permanent Secretary, Kebbi Ministry of Health, Dr ...

  Residents of Kinyach in Baringo North sub-county, Kenya are still reeling in shock after a man was caught engaging in a s.e.xual act with a cow. Jackson Kakugo, who is in his early 20s, is said to have entered ...

Abducted Niger State Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Muhammed Idris, has regained his freedom. It is said Muhammed was taken away from his residence, around 11pm on Sunday. The kidnappers had established contact with his family, demanding N500 million in ransom ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to the 22-year-old man, Joshua Adeyinka Kayode, who allegedly used a fake investment scheme to defraud 170 people of N10.7billion. Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted him bail in the sum of N2 ...